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Ecommerce: How to Survive its Troughs

ReadWriteStart

For most online vendors, this new revenue model was a significant change in the way brands set advertising campaigns. Dell – the American multinational computer technology firm had broken the barrier of a million-dollar online sales back in 1994. Readers of these testimonials feel more curious about the brand’s products.

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3 Ways Technology Is Changing Small Business Lending

YoungUpstarts

In 1994 Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said, “retail banks are dinosaurs, they can be bypassed,” in a Newsweek interview. by Jake Dacillo, Marketing Director, Balboa Capital. Over two decades have passed since he made that statement, but the Internet has helped change the banking landscape remarkably.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Disruptors

Hearpreneur

Their marketing campaign has been quite strong and, while many features are the same, it offers a competitor, which makes both platforms better because of how hard they must work to stay on top. It is truly a wonder when you start thinking about the massive scale that Amazon works at and how far the company has come along since 1994.

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Twitter Link Roundup #185 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

Interesting perspective from Steve Jobs about his legacy (from 1994) – [link]. Seven inspiring examples of charity / non-profit marketing campaigns | Econsultancy – [link]. CMOs: Let’s Give Up On Advertising And Do These 6 Things Instead | Forbes – [link]. Great example – [link].

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Ouch! If I had only learned this before losing millions!

Berkonomics

In 1994, (I know a long time ago), I invested over a million dollars (two million six hundred thousand in today’s dollars) into a company whose entrepreneurs had a vision that I bought into for many reasons, not the least of which was that I had industry experience and understood the need. Let me tell you a short story at my own expense.

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

This was the year that the promise of technology to truly change the world and empower individuals (the reason I entered the tech world in 1994) reached global scale. Mobile advertising became more targeted and user friendly by adapting to the small screen — but advertisers are slow to adopt , with much upside still to come.

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crowdSPRING Community Gives Back – MagazineLiteracy.org

crowdSPRING Blog

The organization’s mission: The Magazine Publishers Family Literacy Project (MagazineLiteracy.org) is the first and only global, magazine industry-wide literacy campaign for children and families. MagazineLiteracy.org is an innovative effort to help families and at-risk kids.

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